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3D printed parts in space no "rocket science"
Photo: © ESA Published Mar 15, 2023The competitive space industry is now into recycling and cost hunting. By reusing rocket engines and 3D print engine parts cost can be lowered, but how will the 3D parts affect the engines? Researcher...
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KTH improves power generation
Where the radiation is good it might be suitable to capture heat from the sun is by mirrors angled so that they redirect the light to a point in a tower. The tower gets very hot and fluid takes up and storage the heat that is later used to drive a CO2 turbine. Salvatore Guccione and Rafael Guedez visited this tower in Spain. Published Feb 15, 2023Many of today's power plants are powered by turbines run by steam. In recent years, turbines driven by a special form of CO2 show exciting potential. There is still research needed to make the technol...
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Replacing wood and charcoal stoves in Africa could save half a million lives every year
A new study assigns actual value to the negative aspects of traditional cooking methods in the developing world, including lost time due to collecting wood or other burnable biomass. Pictured, women carry firewood for cooking at home in Kenya. (Photo: Youssef Boulkaid) Published Jan 12, 2023Half a million lives could be saved each year in sub-Saharan Africa by taking action to reduce reliance on traditional wood- and charcoal-burning stoves, a new study shows.
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ScAIEM Winter School
Published Dec 14, 2022The ScAIEM Winter School “Sustainable Energy Transitions – Technology and Management Perspectives” (5 ECTS) is an interdisciplinary PhD course package that offers doctoral students a training in innov...
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They won the Ebbe Lyths scholarship 2022
Published Dec 13, 2022Two students at the Energy Technology department, Julia Almebäck and Rebecka Magnius, have received a scholarship from Kylbranschens samarbetsstiftelse for their MSc thesis work.
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Sri Lankan partners visit at EGI
Published Oct 25, 2022During the first week of October the Sri Lankan university partners in the EUSL project were visiting KTH. The Department of Energy Technology offered the long distance guests a packed program.
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KTH provides Valencia with sustainable energy plan
Published Sep 29, 2022Bio waste that generates biogas for public transport was one of the suggestions from the winning team that charmed the jury when master students from EGI competed about best proposal for a sustainable...
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A “power bank” for renewables
Foto: Kyoto Group - Heatcube Published Sep 28, 2022Imagine a factory with a giant "power bank" charged with renewable energy when the availability is good and electricity prices low. To be discharged as heat when sun and wind are scarce and prices hig...
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Trust is essential to this year’s ‘Supervisor of the Year’
Supervisor of the Year Rafael Eduardo Guedez Mata, with his award and four of his students. Photo: Private Published Aug 19, 2022This year’s ‘Supervisor of the Year 2021/2022’ award goes to Rafael Eduardo Guedez Mata, a researcher at the EKV Heat and Power Technology division at the ITM School. This is the second year the Ph.D....
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A summer event at EGI – in real life
A brännboll session at Uggleviksparken where both faculty and students participated. Published Jun 20, 2022After two years of pandemic and Zoom happenings, the Sustainable Energy Engineering program was finally able to make the SEE summer event a reality. On June 3, the master students could enjoy brännb...
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Energy research helps boost heat pumps in the U.S.
Nelson Sommerfeldt is a small-town kid working as a researcher in exotic Stockholm. Published Jun 07, 2022Researcher Nelson Sommerfeldt is spreading the impact of Swedish energy research. With the U.S. University Michigan Tech, KTH now helps decarbonize home heating on a new continent.
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Refreshing visit from a bold new French master program at EGI
Published Apr 04, 2022More than 30 students and program directors of the Master program in Energy Transition Management (ETM) , which is jointly offered by Emlyon Business school (among the top 5 of Business schools in Fra...
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We know what we should be doing to solve the climate crisis, why are we not doing it?
Figure: Synergies and trade-offs between climate action and the SDGs Targets. (Source: Fuso Nerini et al, Connecting climate action with other Sustainable Development Goals, Nature Sustainability 2019) Published Apr 04, 2022Today, April 4, IPCC Working Group III has released its long-awaited Sixth Assessment Report. The report urges for system-level climate action and focuses on the transformative changes needed to achie...
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An EleFanT in the air
Researcher Nenad Glodic. Photo: Anna Gullers Published Feb 02, 2022In the near future, the first commercial electric aircraft will take off from our airports. Maybe they will be driven by an electric fan instead of the conventional propeller – at least if the researc...
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Semida Silveira goes west
Silveira has coordinated KTH's cooperation with UN organisations such as UNCTAD and UNFCCC. Published Dec 10, 2021She has worked at KTH for decades, not only within her research field as a Professor in Energy Systems Planning but also with internationalisation. Now it is time for Semida Silveira to continue her c...
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Second Young-researcher's best paper award
Published Dec 01, 2021Second Young Researcher’s Best Paper Award at the conference PRO-VE Smart and Sustainable Collaborative Networks goes to Elena Malakhatka
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The winner of Ebbe Lyths Scholarship 2021
Christofer Kronström Published Dec 01, 2021Christofer Kronström, student at KTH, has been awarded Ebbe Lyths scholarship 2021
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SVT visits CoKitchen at KTH Live-In Lab
Published Nov 16, 2021SVT recently visited the CoKitchen apartment at KTH's campus. One of the participating students in the CoKitchen project gave SVT a tour of the apartment, where a total of four students will be living...
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New centre uses a system approach to tackle climate crisis
Giant iceberg from a melting glacier in Ilulissat on Greenland. Photo: Maridav / Mostphotos Published Nov 10, 2021Why hasn’t the climate crisis been met with faster action? In the newly-launched KTH Climate Action Centre, researchers aim to speed up the climate action process by engaging the whole of society.
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